Patrick Modiano Quotes
Top 35 wise famous quotes and sayings by Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano Famous Quotes & Sayings
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On winning Literature Nobel Prize: I was actually in the street. Yes, I was in the street. It was my daughter who notified me.
I recognized one of the qualities I most admired in my wife: the beautiful big handwriting of the illiterate that she was. Darling,
My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference ... You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...
Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
It's not a large crowd," he said, "and I have the feeling this wedding party is going to end in an orgy." He shrugged his shoulders.
No. She told me she was going to marry him, to get French nationality . . . She was obsessed with getting a nationality...
I noticed a phenomenon that doesn't often happen to
a man: several women turned round as he passed them.
a man: several women turned round as he passed them.
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
On the sidewalk, dead leaves. Or burned pages from an old Gaffiot dictionary. It's the neighborhood of colleges and convents.
Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.
I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.
The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.
People certainly lead compartmentalized lives and their friends do not know each other. It's unfortunate.